Thursday, March 3, 2016

Mash-Up - The Math Wars Writ Small

Let's begin with this tweet:

And the referenced article critiquing the book The Math Myth by Andrew Hacker. Devlin makes the point that Hacker is basically clueless about math ed and, I would add, writing a book that many people will gladly buy and get behind because of their feelings about math education today.

Hacker's original editorial Is Algebra Necessary?

Devlin's response on at The Huffington Post

And a Hacker interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education.

We don't need mathematical thinking? Really?

Edit: Another article about The Math Myth